Suspected hantavirus infections leave 3 dead, several ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic

Three passengers have died and three other people are being treated amid a "public health event" involving suspected hantavirus infections on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, health officials said

Three passengers have died and three other people are being treated amid a "public health event" involving suspected hantavirus infections on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, health officials said.

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Of the six people sickened, hantavirus was confirmed in one case and is suspected in five others, the World Health Organization said in a statement Sunday.

Two of the people who died were identified as a married couple, a 70-year-old man declared dead on arrival in St. Helena, and a 69-year-old woman who collapsed at Johannesburg’s international airport while attempting to fly to the pair’s home country of the Netherlands and died at a health facility, South African Health Ministry spokesperson Foster Mohale said.